With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass
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Springburn’s silent Caley works: a testament to broken promises
As Starmer’s Labour peddles hollow ‘Great British’ rhetoric, MATT KERR traces the decline of Scotland’s railway industry and the true cost of profit-driven politics
GHOSTS OF INDUSTRY: The Caley, seen here in 1982
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
RALLIES, shootings, murder, secret services, a defiant candidate, and a whole new world of conspiracy theories … The presidential race in the US has turned into a farce more immediately deadly than I had imagined.
When I watched events unfold over the last few weeks, I was reminded of something my old cycling coach used to say when we talked politics on the way to races in my youth: “America’s a teenager, Matt. It’s the best and worst of it.”
It might have been a little bit of a patronising judgement on a country of quarter of a billion folk, but I’ve always thought there to be a grain of truth in it. The impetuousness, the certainty of cause, the quickness to fall in love or go to war.
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There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR
